The Lord laughs at him— for He sees his day is coming.
People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror.
He who sits in heaven laughs! Adonai mocks them.
I in turn will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when dread comes on you,
For the day of Adonai-Tzva’ot will be against anyone proud and haughty, against anyone lifted up—he will be humbled,
To the sword with all her bulls, going down to the slaughter! Oy to them! Their day has come— the time of their visitation.
You are to mark out a way, so the sword can come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon and to Judah in fortified Jerusalem.
Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, by exposing your transgressions, so that your sins appear in all your deeds—because you have come to remembrance, you will be seized with the hand.
This is the interpretation of the inscription: MENE: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
David added, “As Adonai lives, either Adonai will strike him down, or his day will come to die, or he will go down to battle and be swept away.
